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S. G. VOGELEY. GLASS FINISHING APPARATUS.

No. 558,537. Patented Apr. 21, 1896.

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S. G. VOGELEY. GLASS FINISHING APPARATUS.

N0. 558 ,53'7. Patented Apr. 21, 1896.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

SAMUEL G. VOGELEY, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR TO THE UNITED STATES GLASS COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

GLASS-FINISHING APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 558,537, dated April 21, 1896.

Application filed October 1, 1894. Serial No. 524,564. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: tends to raise the collar 12, and thus to swing Be it known that I, SAMUEL G. VOGELEY, the levers 8 outwardly and to spread the 'of Pittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and former-sections 7. State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new 18 is a hollow post which is fixed to the plate and useful Improvement in Glass-Finishing 6 and projects upwardly therefrom. It con- Apparatus, of which the following is a full, stitutes a guide-socket in which a head 18 is clear, and exact description, reference being set and is vertically movable, and it contains had to accompanying drawings, forming part a spring 19 by which said head is pressed upof this specification, in whichwardly. 20 is a post or standard forming a 10 Figure 1 shows my improved apparatus in guide for the snap by which the glass article side elevation, partlyin vertical section. Fig. to be shaped is manipulated. 2 is a vertical section thereof, showing the The operation is as follows: The parts beparts of the former intheir closed position; ing in the position shown in Fig. l, the glass and Fig. 3 is a plan view. article 21 having been pressed into the form I 5 The object of my invention is to provide shown in that figure and having been heated apparatus for the shaping and forming of is seized by the snap, and the workman holdarticles of glassware, which can be operated ing the snap then places the article inverted without skilled labor and can be readily adupon the head 18 and presses it downwardly justed to suit articles of various sizes and gradually upon .said head, moving the latter 2o shapes. down against pressure of the spring 19, and

In the drawings, 2 represents the base or simultaneously he raises the outer end of the frame of the machine. lever 14, so as to force the former-sections 3 is a rotary shaft which is stepped in bearinwardly against the glass article. The shaft ings 4, and is adapted to be rotated by gear 3 and with it the plate 6 and the former-sec- 25 ing 5. 4 tions are meanwhile rotated by the gearing 5,

6 is a plate which is keyed to the top of the to which powermay be applied either by hand shaft and which bears the former-sections 7 7. or by a suitable motor while the glass article These sections are preferably three in numis held stationary by the snap and rests upon her. They are concave in their interiorto suit a loose or revoluble disk 22 at the top of the 30 the shape of the glass article or bowl to be head 8. The revolution and inward pressure formed therein and are mounted slidingly on of the former-sections 7 press the sides of the seats on the plate 6, on which they are movglass article inwardly, impart to ita perfectly able toward and from the center of said plate. symmetrical shape circular in cross-section, These sections are thus moved by means of and finally reduce it to the finished form shown 5 levers S 8, which are fulcrumed to a flanged in Fig. 2, thus completing the formation of collar 9, fixed to the shaft 3, and at their upper the article. hen it is completed, the outer ends are pivotally connected to the heads of end of the lever 14 is lowered, thus retracting guide-bolts 10, which are fixed to the formerthe former-sections and permitting the arsections and are fitted in guide-sockets 11 at ticle to be removed.

40 the base of the plate 6. The pivotalmotion of The points of invention which I intend to the levers is effected by the following means: cover by this specification are the concave 12 is a collar which is longitudinally movable former-sections 7 7 and the inwardly-movable on the shaft 3 and is connected with the lehead 18, upon and against which the article vers S by links 13. A hand-lever 14: is fulis pressed when it is inserted into the space 45 crumed to a post 15, and at its end is forked within the former-sections. The use of this 5 and is fitted to a groove 16 on the collar 12, spring-backed head facilitates the insertion so that the collar may rotate with the shaft, of the glass article and prevents its distortion, and that by verticalv motion of the lever 14 since the spring is an easy and automatic dethe collar may be moved up or down. 17 is vice to permit the glass article to be pushed 50 a spring which bears upon the lever let and down gradually as it is being shaped, but to '100 hold it up at the beginning of the operation, so as to prevent its edges from being buckled by the former-sections.

I claim- 1. A glass-finisher comprising a rotary plate having external inwardly-movable formersections and carrying a central projecting support carrying upon its outer end the base of the inverted blank, said support being movable to and from the plate; substantially as described.

2. The combination of rotary inwardlymovable former-sections, and a spring-backed support or head contained Within the same and adapted to receive the glass article and I 5 to permit it to be inserted gradually Within the closing sections; substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

SAML. G. VOGELEY.

\Vitnesses:

THOMAS W. BAKEWELL, \V. B. CORWIN. 

